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  • December 19, 2016

    Protect Medicaid Funding: Older Adults and Individuals with Disabilities, Issue 3

    This third issue in NHeLP's Protect Medicaid Funding series centers on policies to cut or cap Medicaid funding, and how such austerity actions would adversely impact the lives of older adults and individuals with disabilities. For example with capped federal funding, states facing budget shortfalls "would have strong incentives…

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  • December 2, 2016

    Amicus Brief: Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri v. Mosier

    NHeLP and other health care and women's advocates filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit urging it to affirm a federal district court's ruling that Kansas was violating the Medicaid Act's free choice of provider provision, by barring federal funding of state…

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  • November 30, 2016

    Lessons from California: Nov

    While Nov. 8 statewide elections in California brought the passage of a number of positive health care related initiatives, the looming Trump administration poses serious threats to health care in California and the nation, writes Staff Attorney Amy Chen in this month's Lessons from California. "Today and in the years…

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  • November 28, 2016

    Health Advocate: The Post-Election State of Our Health

    With a looming Trump administration and conservative majorities in Congress promising to repeal the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, and greatly weaken Medicaid and other public safety net laws, NHeLP D.C. Managing Attorney Mara Youdelman details some of what to expect in the coming year on health care.…

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  • November 1, 2016

    Lessons from California

    Abbi Coursolle

    Decades after being ordered by a state appeals court to adhere to Medicaid law, California's Medicaid agency, Medi-Cal, starting in 2017 will be required by state law to ensure it is providing transportation services to Medicaid beneficiaries, writes Staff Attorney Abbi Coursolle in this month's Lessons from California. Coursolle…

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  • October 14, 2016

    Issue Brief 7: Medicaid Managed Care Final Regulations: BSS

    Senior Attorney Elizabeth Edwards provides analysis and guidance on the updated rule regarding managed care plans in Medicaid, and how it relates to new requirements around beneficiary support systems (BSS). Edwards explains that the updated rule, adopted this year by the U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services…

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